 Things You Find |
|
|
|
Porsche, and the Porsche crest are registered trademarks of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG.
This site is not affiliated with Porsche in any way. Its only purpose is to provide an online forum for car enthusiasts. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. |
|
|
  |
| zoomCat |
 Mar 27 2025, 06:25 PM
Post
#1
|
|
Member  Group: Members Posts: 199 Joined: 13-August 04 From: Cincinnati, OH Member No.: 2,526 Region Association: None 
 |
When you start digging around in a car just recently acquired you expect to find some loose change, maybe old registration papers, Del Taco receipts, etc. Maybe even a 10 mm socket; they have to go somewhere.
Pulled the backpad out of a 73 six conversion to swap out the recalcitrant seat belt retractors and I found this:  Still hanging from the bolt. But no change. |
   |
 
|
| technicalninja |
Mar 27 2025, 07:11 PM
Post
#2
|
|
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,473 Joined: 31-January 23 From: Granbury Texas Member No.: 27,135 Region Association: Southwest Region
|
Someone misses that!
That critter is long. My favorite wrenches are a set an extra-long combos. Free tools are better than change in my book... Funny quick story. Recently purchased a 99 Boxster. Trouble with e-brake lever. My son pulled the console, and 48.75 worth of change flowed. Like an old school Vegas slot machine! Fixed the e-brake problem right up... |
|
|
|
| bkrantz |
Mar 27 2025, 09:01 PM
Post
#3
|
|
914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 8,308 Joined: 3-August 19 From: SW Colorado Member No.: 23,343 Region Association: Rocky Mountains
|
I bet somebody snuck that wrench under the back pad to hold the bolt while tightening the nut on the engine side of the firewall, and then forget it was there.
|
|
|
|
| flyer86d |
Mar 28 2025, 04:56 AM
Post
#4
|
|
Member Group: Members Posts: 460 Joined: 12-January 11 From: Corea, Maine Member No.: 12,585 Region Association: North East States |
When I had my garage, I found a few tools including someone’s missing 10mm socket. One customer brought in a small car that he had bought at an auction for his son’s first car for me to service and adjust the parking brake. I opened up the console and reached in. Out came a spoon, a syringe, and a lighter. I fortunately didn’t get stuck by the needle.
Charlie |
|
|
|
| rgalla9146 |
Mar 28 2025, 07:07 AM
Post
#5
|
|
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 4,726 Joined: 23-November 05 From: Paramus NJ Member No.: 5,176 Region Association: None
|
Mystery bracket too ! What's on the other side ? |
|
|
|
| live free & drive |
Mar 28 2025, 07:29 AM
Post
#6
|
|
Member Group: Members Posts: 186 Joined: 29-June 16 From: New Hampshire Member No.: 20,159 Region Association: None
|
QUOTE Mystery bracket too ! What's on the other side ? That's a Patrick Motorsports bolt-in 6 cylinder "swing down" engine mount |
|
|
|
| lalee914 |
Mar 28 2025, 07:48 AM
Post
#7
|
|
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 832 Joined: 13-February 13 From: Georgetown, DE Member No.: 15,521 Region Association: North East States |
My son worked in a junk yard for a year. He found so many left behind tools. We put together many sets of metric and SAE sockets and we started giving them away to friends & neighbors. Most were Craftsman, only a very few were Harbor Fright. Found quite a few wrenches & screwdrivers. Take a rusty socket to Sears (at the time) and walk out with a brand new socket.
|
|
|
|
| bkrantz |
Mar 28 2025, 07:54 PM
Post
#8
|
|
914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 8,308 Joined: 3-August 19 From: SW Colorado Member No.: 23,343 Region Association: Rocky Mountains
|
And when you get old enough, you can do it to yourself. Towards the end of my restoration, I lost a favorite tool (an all-purpose prying and probing tool made from an old screwdriver with a blunted tip). Two years later I found it, under the right side headlight bucket.
|
|
|
|
| Robarabian |
Mar 29 2025, 08:55 AM
Post
#9
|
|
914 A Roo Group: Members Posts: 673 Joined: 11-February 19 From: Simi Valley, Kalifornia Member No.: 22,865 Region Association: Southern California
|
My 71 I bought from the original owner family. When I tore out the interior, I found a suit jacket button and one quarter, dated 1972. I will likely glue that quarter and button somewhere in the car as a good luck charm that the car has survived all these years and is now brought back to life.
|
|
|
|
| rick 918-S |
Mar 30 2025, 07:12 PM
Post
#10
|
|
Hey nice rack! -Celette Group: Members Posts: 20,911 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Now in Superior WI Member No.: 43 Region Association: Northstar Region 
|
Nice wrench! When I was working on Ben's 6 I found a 1970 Penny in the tunnel
|
|
|
|
|
1 User(s) are reading this topic (1 Guests and 0 Anonymous Users)
0 Members:
|
Lo-Fi Version | Time is now: 31st March 2025 - 03:16 AM |
Invision Power Board
v9.1.4 © 2025 IPS, Inc.